SPORTING NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10628, 5 June 1897, Page 4

SPORTING NEWS.

In laab clght'u Auiiklnml Star " Hlppona" aeleoia l!ex to win tho Nonh Grand National Hurdleo. A cable from Melbourne nayo that the eteeplechauer Fnrnnco, vhilo nchacillDg, met with an ncattcut, us tho ieiratt! of wbloh be bad to bu shot The Wesn Anotrnllnn Turf O!nb (Pertb) made a profit of £0500 luat yonr, nnwith* tb&ndlnc that £10,000 wus tpsHt In improvement!). The following aro tlis tirwjra of tdn placed horsog in IViCteiorJi'n Cimimli'rtllon on tbo Blrthdity Cai>, run au Uuudv.-iek : — FlrabhorßO.Dolu.vuro (Nn. 30.101)), F. Hepbnm. 68 Albsiii pbiGtiO, South, llruuswlok (Victoria), £4500; occomi horse, Talaverw (No. 10 3-17), H. D, West, . Endnndn, fconth Amtmlin, £1350 ; dhlni horse, Glondonnou (No. 16,294), W. J. Smith, N.Z Knilway?, To Awamutu (New Zealand), £905. Tiiesu nmuunts oro net). At HoDtor oud Noldn'B yßrris at Anckland leveral well knosya raoehorsea were tnbmltted. Durie w;\b pufohßßed by Mr W. Robattatm for 87 gniasaa. and Norlaa hi Mr T. vvylie, jaur., nt 20J guineas ; Polite found a pnronaxcria MesotsPiillam nod Armltago at luj rhldcih, aod Cleopatra was baaght by (<lr Green Donovan, Wallbl and Provoke were paaaen. The prlz3 Riven by the Sportsman (England) for the competition as to the bast sire to bo mated with Hli.H. the Prlnoe of Wales'B filly Thnls, by St. Serf (ton of St. Slmou) from Poetry, has been awarded to Mr Newman Hobbs, of Eufield Town (England), who selected Ormonde. The judges were Maaaro Simon Harrison and Ji A, Doyle, who had selected tho ■on of Bend Oc. Tho reasons plvea tor the «eleotlon aro not very strong— almply that Ormondo wiw, in the opinion of Mr Hobbj, " the f?amo!6 horse that haa rnn on the turf dnriao: tho oantury," and that he tired Orrns, whoso dam, An<?olios, waa by Sti S.lm'on. It la highly oreilltable to Anat'rallan thoronghbred otoek that CarWno was Beleotod by 33 of thocompulltorß, . 'Wallaoe by 29, Trenaon 23, and Carnage ■ iW, whlla Nordonfeldt(desd), Movoco,?, by Splendor (Imp.) from Algorlne, by Hawthorden from Imported Algeria, by Blinkhoolle, Highborn (tjoldlug), and Abatcorn were among tho others picked as suitable mateß for the O.iks winner of 1896. Mr T, Willis, of Handwlok, soleoced the Splendor horse MoroooD ; aud Mr I. JSarnehaw, of Randwlck, choea Blalrfinde (fnll brother to tho grout colt, Galtce More), by Kendal from Morganotte. It U worthy ot record, howevor, that when Mr M. Power was sent to England to Snrobaßß 6lre3 for tho Wiltoa Piirli Stnd, llalrlinde waa one that he waa commissioned to bay ; bat the horeu was not for . sale at any price. Amongst the entjloa for tha Chsnip3gne Stakes of 250 sovp, nix fnrlongs, at die Danedln J.O. aatamn montldg, 1898, aru three by the Hon. J. D. Ormond— colt by Dreadnonfiht— Oiiisntale, colt by DrewJnonght—Legaoy, and a oolt by Droadnought—Lady Evelyn filly. Mr Mnrphy, who raoea ao " Mr J. M, Robetts," has taken tho stables bnllt at Caulfisld by Mr S. H. Gollan. Mr Gollan had no look when his horsea wero there,